What a Difference a Year Makes

May 14, 2012 - one year ago today.  It seems impossible that an entire year has passed since our sweet Daddy left to join our mom and other family members who've gone on before us.

This past Sunday would have been my parents' 74th wedding anniversary - May 12, 1939. My dad even used the date for their special license plate on their car -- 05-12-39.  They were only 17 when they married, became parents at 19, and grandparents at 42!  They lived through a lot of ups and downs, trials and heartaches, but also love and happiness with their family of four, which then grew to 21 before mother's death in 1996.  Daddy lived to see our family expand to nearly 30 before his death.  He would have adored his new great granddaughter who we can't wait to meet in August.



Edith Olene Pinkerton Baker

Harold "Tip" Baker



In Hawaii after Dad's retirement, mid 1980's

50th Wedding Anniversary, 1989

 

A lot has happened in this past year with our family and with some of our closest friends...deaths, births, new jobs, new relationships, new churches, moves to new homes and even new towns.  That's the way life is and we just have to trust in God to carry us through it all.  He will see us through it if we'll just put our faith in Him.

Carl's mother also passed away in January - making us orphans indeed...no precious parents left to bless our lives on this earth.  We just look forward to the reunion to come in the hereafter!  We have been working hard these last few months cleaning out her house and preparing it for sell (see it here:  http://www.era.com/property/75878744-101022418/3803-dalraida-place-montgomery-al-36109/ )

Looking ahead to new challenges and new adventures in the coming year...as my daddy always said, "How sweet it is."